Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xiii, 136 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "A Critical Reflexive Approach to Sex Research is a methodologically focused book that offers rich insights into the, often secret, subjectivities of men who pay for sex in South Africa. The book centres on the interview context, outlining a critical reflexive approach to understanding how knowledge is co-produced by both the interviewer and the participant in research about sex. By attending to the complex dynamics of the research interview, this book examines the historic and contemporary relationship between sex work, race, coloniality, sexuality, masculinity, femininity, whorephobia, and discourses of disease and contagion. It draws on both empirical interview data and Huysamen's entries in her research journal to offer a unique approach to building critical reflexivity into every phase of the research process. The critical reflexive approach uses an assemblage of poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theories and practices which together provide tools to interrogate how interview dynamics facilitate, shape, and restrain the meaning that is produced within the interview. This book will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in researching sex work from intersectional and feminist decolonial perspectives as it probes critical questions surrounding how men make meaning of paying for sex, their motivations for doing so, and how they negotiate their identities in relation to this stigmatised practice. It provides a unique offering to researchers working on sexual, secret, and stigmatised topics, providing them with a specific set of tools and resources to incorporate reflexivity into their own sex research. Encouraging the reader to look widely to draw on an array of theories and frameworks across disciplines, this is fascinating reading for students and researchers in critical psychology, research methods, and the social sciences"--

Series statement

1. Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-thought

Uniform title

1. Concepts for critical psychology.

Subject

1. Prostitutes' customers > South Africa
2. Prostitution > South Africa
3. Prostitution > Economic aspects > South Africa
4. Prostitutes' customers
5. Prostitution
6. Prostitutes' clients
7. Sex work
8. Sexual practices
9. Prostitution > Economic aspects
10. South Africa

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. Sc D 22-906

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Huysamen, Monique, 1986- author.

Title

1. A critical reflexive approach to sex research : interviews with men who pay for sex / Monique Huysamen.

Publisher

1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-thought
2. Concepts for critical psychology.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Huysamen, Monique, 1986- Critical reflexive approach to sex research London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 9780367554477 (DLC) 2021057919

LCCN

1. 2021057918

ISBN

1. 9780367623777 hardcover
2. 0367623773 hardcover
3. 9780367554477 paperback
4. 036755447X paperback

Research call number

1. Sc D 22-906